"In August 1879, he was married to Miss Maggie A. Wolfersperger, daughter of John and Lydia Wolfersperfer, prosperous farmers of Jordan township, north of Sterling. After two years of domestic happiness at Birdwood, west of Emerson, a pleasant rural retreat, Mr. and Mrs. Davis removed to Sterling in 1881, where they have since resided in a charming cottage on the banks of Rock river."